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My 68000 computer

Welcome to my site. I’ve always been a fan of the 68000 series processor, mainly due to the fact i was a big fan of the Commodore Amiga computers.

Serveral years ago i came across the Kiwi, a 68008 based computer designed by Simon Ferber.

Y Ddraig (The Dragon) is heavily influenced by the Kiwi’s design.

The specifications are:

68000 CPU running at 10Mhz.

512K EEPROM

1M of Static RAM

14M Dynamic RAM

2 Serial Ports

2 Joystick ports

PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse

Dual SID Sound

IDE interface

Real-time Clock

CP2200 Ethernet controller

V9990 Video Display Processor with 512K VRAM

While a hard drive is supported and will be able to load software, the intention is to have the computer boot into a fully working system with a basic prompt just like many of the computer systems that were available in the 1980s.

Software development will mainly be done on a PC using mainly C and assembler.